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The European

«The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision will involve a risk of proliferation that will be very dangerous for the future.»
«It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.»
«Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.»
«The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.»
«The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato»
«Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard»
Author: Mary McCarthy | Keywords: The European
«There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.»
«The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.»
«Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself»